440 XXXVI. RHAMNEJ^, [Crj/ptaudra. 



L -I 



N. S. "Wales. About Port Jackson and on the Nepean river, R. Brotvn, Sieler, n, 68, 

 and FL 3Mj'L n, 691; N. of BatLurst, A, Cwmiiigham ; Cabramatta, IFoolls, This 

 is considered by F, Mueller (Fragni. iii. 67) as an abnormal state of C. amara^ but I find 

 the characters constant in numerous specimens from various collectors^ both in flower and 

 jfruit. 



6. C. amara, Bm. in Tram, Linn. Soc, x. 295, t. 18, /. 2. A rigid, 

 ■wiry, decumbent or subercct, much-brancbed shrub, the yoTUig branches 

 minutely hoary with a close stellate down, the smaller ones often ending in 

 a fine thorn. Leaves solitaiy or clustered, linear or linear-oblong, usually 1 

 to 2 and rarely 3 lines long, obtuse or acute, rigid, glabrous or nearly so, 

 the margins usually recurved. Flowers almost sessile, solitary within the 

 bracts, but usually several together, forming short leafy spikes or racemes on 

 the smaller branches. Calyx at the time of flowering, 1 to 1-^ lines long, 

 campauulate, white outside with a close minute down, very shortly aJnate 

 by its obtuse base, the lobes usually shorter than the tube, the brown im- 

 bricate bracts not exceeding the adnate base and very obtuse. Ovary 

 densely pubescent, included in the tube, but adnate only below the middle, 

 the disk not distinct. Fruiting calyx often 3 lines long, enclosing the cap- 

 sule, \vhich remains adherent at the base only or below the middle- Cocci 

 crustaceous. — DC. Prod. ii. 38 ; F, Muell. Fragm. iii. 66 • (7. Sieberi, Fenzl, 

 in Hueg. Enum. 23; Hook. f. FL Tasm. i. 74; C campannlafa, Schlecht. 

 Linnsea, xx. 639 ; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 67, partly; C. riervata, E^MSsek, in 



largM 



293. 



Queeusland. Kent's Lagoons, Lelchhardt ; Mount Mitchell, Becklcr, 



N- S- "Wales. Port Jackson, i2. Brown^ Sjeher, n. 67, and Fl. Mixt. n, 492 ; north- 

 ward to Clarence Eivcr, Beckler, and New England, C. Stuart; in the interior to the 

 Lachlan river, Eraser ; St. George's Range, A. Cumungham; Darlirg and ^Murray desert. 

 Herb, F, Mueller, 



Victoria. Aiid bills and stony tracts, ascendnig into the Alps, F. Mueller, 



Tasmania. North Esk river, Lawrence^ Giinn, and others. 



S. Australia. Between the Murray and St. Vincent's Gulf, Belir^ F. Mueller. 



ludepeudeutly of the diversity in the size of the flowers resulting from age, there appear 

 to be two distinct varieties with large and small flowers, the calyx in the latter usually 

 broader and more deeply lobed, both of them included among Sieber's specimens ; the 

 southern ones belong chiefly to smaller-flowered varieties. These have usually the free part of 

 the ovary less promiueut, but in Cunulnghani and Fraser's speciincns from the iutcrior the 

 ovary and capsule are very prominent, whilst the calyx is small and much more loosely i)U- 

 bescent than usual. Some specimens are remarkable for their short, almost ovate leaves. 



7. C. lanosiflora^ F, Muell. Fragin. iii. 65. A divaricately-branched 

 shrub, of 1 to 2 ft., the young branches mumtely hoary, not spinesccnt 

 in our specimens. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, 1 to 3 lines long, the 

 margins revolute, glabrous. Flowers almost sessile, few together at the ends 

 of the branches, forming sliort, leafy, oblong or almost globular spikes. Calyx 

 globular, 1^ to nearly 3 lines diameter, densely covered with a very white 

 crisped wool, the lobes much shorter than the tube, the brown imbricate 

 bracts veiy broad and obtuse, about half as long as the tube. Ovary very 

 short, almost wholly inferior, the summit expanded into a pubescent slightly 

 undulate disk. Capsule more than half superior, 



W. S. 'Wales. Mountains of New England on the Severn, C. Stuart; Mount Mitchell, 

 towards the Clarence riv cr, Beckler. 



